Pressure-governor.



N0. 662,094. Patented Nov. 20,. |900.

A. HOESCH.

PRESSURE GOVERNOR. (Application med Feb. da, 1899.)

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N0. 662,094. Patented Nov. 20, |900. A. RESCH.

PRESSURE GOVERNOR.

(Application filed Feb. 28, 1899.)

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Unire@ Srarns `1PATENT ALFRED ROESCH, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE DAVIS rb ROESCH TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

PRESSURE-GOVERNOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,094, dated November 20, 190D.

Application tiled February 28,1899. Serial No. 707,147. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ALFRED ROEsCH, acitiand 13 a follower-rod, said follower being zen of the United States of America, and a adapted to bear against said diaphragm. 14 resident of Bridgeport, Fairfield couuty,Con is a spring adapted to bear with a yielding 55 necticut, have invented certain new and usepressure against the said follower to force ful Improvements in Pressure-Governors, of same downwardly. Said spring is arranged which the following is a specification. around the said follower-rod, and its upper My invention relates to improvements in end is confined by an adjustable nut 15, by regulatorsin which variationsin the pressure the adjustment of which a predetermined 6o 1o itself operate to automatically control the amount of pressure can be exerted on the means by which said pressure may be reguspring and against the upward movement of lated. the diaphragm and follower.

In the present form of my invention such 16 designates a valvel chest inclosing a means are shown as a damper, arranged in a chamber secured to the upper part of the 65 flue rising from a heater, and an operating section 5 of the casing 4. The said chamber means for moving the damper, comprising a has an outlet, as at 18. diaphragm-chamber and a diaphragm, and a 19 is a pallet or valve pivoted within the valve for controlling the admission of motive chamber 16 at 20 and adapted to close a vent fluid thereto. or passage 2l,leading tothe outlet 18. I have 7o 2o The objects of my invention are to hold or termed the particular form of valve shown maintain a pressure ata predetermined point a pallet or pallet-valve, as a term most automatically, to simplify the parts in a regudescriptive of it. It is similar in form to the lator, to lower the cost of construction of a pallet or pallet-valveemployedin organs and device for such purpose, and to make such which regulates the supply of air from the 75 device extremely sensitive yet positive in its bellows to the organ-pipe controlled from the action. keyboard. The pallet or valve 19 is nor- 1 will now proceed to describe a regulator mally held closed by a spring 22. 23 is a rod embodying myinvention and will then point located between the end of the follower-rod out the novel features in the claim. 13 and the said pallet or valve and passing 8o 5o Referring to the accompanying drawings, through a stuffing-box 24 in order to prevent Figure 1 represents a central vertical section leakage of the fluid from the chamber 16. of a regulator embodying my improvement. From the above it follows that should the Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 pressure in the diaphragm-chamber 9'eXceed represents a diagrammatic View illustrating the pressure at which the spring 14 is set the 85 a system in which my regulator may be ernfollower and its rod will be lifted, and with it ployed. the rod 23. This will raise the pallet 19 and Similar reference characters designate coropen the passage 21 to the incoming fluid. responding parts in all the figures. The operation of the device in connection Reference-numeral4designatesacasing or with a heating system may be best under- 9o 4o support, for convenience constructed in three stood by reference to Fig. 3, in which d is a pieces 5, 6, and 7. The upper pieces 5 and heater, such as a boiler. b is a flue leading 6 are secured together in the middle by a from the furnace of same. c is a damper loscrew-threaded connection, as shown. The cated in said flue. d is a lever adapted to lowest part 7 of the casing is secured to the throw said damper in one direction. c is a 95 4; intermediate part 6 by screws 8. The part 7 counterbalance-weight adapted to return said is cored out at 9 to form apressure-chamber, damper to its open position. fis a conwhich will be in communication with the necting-rod connecting same to a piston or fluid under pressure which it is desired to diaphragm g. h is a diaphragm-chamber regulate, as by a pipe 7c. 11 is a diaphragm connected to chamber 16 by the pipe. i. lc is roo 5o arranged above said chamber and secured in a pipe which leads from the fluid under presposition by having its edges clamped between sure in the heater d to the diaphragm-chamher Now, therefore, assuming the inlet 17 to be connected to a water-supply at, say, city water-pressure then the raising of the pallet or valve, as above described, will permit the water to pass through the said chamber 16, through the vent 21 and out-let 18, and

through the pipette the diaph ragm-chamberg. This will depress the diaphragm g, closing the damper c against the weight of the counterbalance e. The damper will be held shut until the pressure in the heater a falls below the pressure at which the spring 14 is set, when the said spring will lower the diaphragm 11, follower 12, and rod 13permitting the pallet or valve 19 to close.

lis adrip-cock which is arranged in the pipe il and which is held normally open. When so open, however, the area of the opening is less than the area of the vent or passage 2l. Hence though some water will escape therethrough, there will still he a suicient head maintained to perform the required function. When the pallet closes the passage 21, so that no more water can pass through, the water left in the pipes and in the diaphragm-chamber h will gradually escape through the drip cock Z. 'lhe diaphragm or piston gis returned by the action of the counterbalance e,and the damper is againm open.

The construction and arrangement of parts shown constitute an exceedingly eilicient and simple device, one that may he readily and simply adjusted for different pressures, and one that is unlikely to get out of order.

The construction of the rod 23 and the rod 13 in two separate pieces prevents the possibility of the said rods binding in their bearings as might occur were they in one piece.

What I claim is- The combination in a regulator of a casing or su pport constructed in three sections, a diaphragm-chamber arranged'in the lowest section, a diaphragm arranged thereon and inclosing same, an intermediate section having an annular base adapted to be secured to the lowest section and to clamp the edges of the diaphragm, and having Vau arched structure rising from the annular base, an upper section secured to the upper end of the intermediate structure, a valve-chest secured upon the upper end of the upper section of the casing, a valve arranged in said valve-chest, a rod controlling in its movement the movement of the valve and passing out through the valve-chest, a follower and a follower-rod arranged between the diaphragm and the valvecontrolliug rod, the said followerguided in the casing and bearing loosely against the end of the valve-controlling rod, a coibspring surrounding the follower-rod and bearing at one end against the follower, and an adjusting-nut mounted upon the casing and bear- 

